Bed-bottom



L. EI. RANSOM'. Bed-Bottqms No. 224,846. P at entqd Feb/24,1880.

- to provide against any noise in the use of the in UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

LOOMIS E. RANSOM, OF BRYAN, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO KENT FURNITUREMANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

BED-BOTTOM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 224,846, dated February24, 1880.

Application filed September 16, 1879.

ment is fully set forth in the following specification and accom panin gdrawings, in which- Figurel is an isometric view. Fig. '2 is a Fig. 3 isa top view;

support.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved bed-bottom, wherebythe flexibility of the same can be easily regulated, and also bedprovided with my slats, the whole being simple in construction anddurable in operatiou, as will hereinafter be more fully set fOltll.

In the accompanying drawings, A A represent slats, which areplacedcrosswise as supports, one at the head and the other at the footof the bedstead.

Upon these cross-slats I place a number of boxings or housings,B, atintervals, which serve as spaces between the slats. Rollers O are placedlengthwise on these slats, extending under the housing B,

and made in separate parts, so that when the difl'erent slats are placedon the rollers they will operate independently of each other. Therollers are made smaller in diameter 1 than the hollowed portion of thehousing B,

the object being to allow room for a free and easy movement of the slatlongitudinally.

By this construction the movements of the slats are, first, independentof each other,

by pressure on thesprings.

In Fig.1 only a portion of the end crossslats or supports is shown,sufficient to illustrate-the bearing portion fora wide and a narrowslat, the object being to show that this construction will admit of anywidth slat.

The slats, as shownin Figs. 1 and 3, are

1 and, second, do not creak or produce any noise slitted toform three ormore parts, leaving a short portion of each end intact. The alternatestrips thus formed are bridged by means of a block, E,as shown in Fig.1, or by means of twoblocks, F, Fig. 2, placed near each end.

An elastic bed can thus be made by moving In use this block can be setup edgewise, as

represented in the drawings, or placed on the side. In the former caseone slat will be placed in the gain 01 above, and the other slats belowon the rounded portions 0 c. When laid flatwise the under slat is placedin the gain f,

and the two upper slats on the rounded portions 1) b. y

I am aware that a bed-bottom having elastic bars with blocks is not new,and I hereby disclaim such as my invention; but I do not know of a blockconstructed in the manner here shown; neither am I aware that a bedslathas ever been constructed of wood in one piece, as herein described, norof the method of suspending the slats as shown. Therefore,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is r 1. TheWedge-shaped block E, having aflat face, a, rounded parts I) c, andprovided with gains (1 e, the latter of which has a rounded face,substantially asand for the purpose specified.

2. Asupport for bed-slats placed crosswise in a bedstead, and providedwit'ha series of boXings or housings, B, having within said housings theends of a set of independent rollers, upon which the ends of the bedslats rest between the housings, substantially as and for the purposeherein set forth.

3. The combination of aslitted and bridged bed-slat, D, with support A,having housing B and rollers O, substantially as herein described andset forth. I

LOOMIS E. RANSOM.

Witnesses:

JOHN S. WILLIAMS, WILLIAM STAUGH.

